March 24, 2014 - PPC Vice Chairman Dinh Van Thu signed the project of lightning construction on the National Highway No 1 from km947 to km1027 through Quang Nam Province.
Accordingly, the road lightning system through urban and high density areas with the total length of 11.34 km will be completed; while the underground work for the rest 26.81 km long road be done in advance.
This project will be implemented on widened parts of the National Highway No 1 passing through the districts of Duy Xuyen, Que Son, Thang Binh, Phu Ninh, and Nui Thanh. Being started in 2014, the project costs VND 36.8 billion financed by the State budget. This lightning project is aimed at gradually completing the lightning system on the whole widened National Highway No 1 with an eye to reduce traffic accidents. … [Read more...]

The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), a member of the World Bank Group, announced that it will guarantee Vietnam access to US$500 million of international loans for the 15-year expansion of National Highway No.20.
Goldman Sachs, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, and a syndicate of other international commercial banks will be providing the loans.
The expansion of a 124.77-kilometer section started January 2014.
The National Highway No.20 is the main route connecting Ho Chi Minh City with the Central Highlands.
The project aims to reduce traffic congestion. … [Read more...]

The Ministry of Transport and central Quang Binh Province yesterday broke ground for the widening of 29km of National Highway No 1 in Quang Trach and Bo Trach districts.
The work is being done on a build-operate-transfer basis at a cost of VND2 trillion ($95.2 million), and will be completed in 2015.
Sai Gon Tiep Thi (Sai Gon Marketing)
Work to begin on new Vinh airport
Construction of a new terminal at Vinh Airport in central Nghe An Province will begin tomorrow at a cost of VND500 billion (almost $25 millions).
Aaccording to the Airports Corporation of Viet Nam, the terminal will measure 11,700sq.m and have a capacity to handle 1,000 passengers at a given time.
Tuoi Tre (The Youth)
$285m insurance for VN's satellites
Post-Telecommunication Insurance and Bao Viet Insurance will be the insurers for Viet Nam's VINASAT-1 and VINASAT-2 satellites in 2013-14.
VINASAT-1 is insured for VND4 trillion ($190.4 million) and VINASAT-2 for VND2 trillion. — VNS … [Read more...]

On 23 October, Hai Duong Province People's Committee sent an official letter to the Ministry of Transport, requesting for direction on the functional units to early complete the project for improvement, restoration of National Highway No. 5
On 23 October, Hai Duong Province People's Committee sent an official letter to the Ministry of Transport, requesting for direction on the functional units to early complete the project for improvement, restoration of the highway surface, approved by the Prime Minister, including a number of items: improving the intersections at km 59 +700 (intersecting provincial road 390B), km 74 +300 (intersecting provincial road 388) and km 59 +100 (Tien Trung crossroads); dismantling the separation between median motor lane and rudimentary lane; considering the moving of two bus shelters at km 52 +100 (Ben Han crossroads). … [Read more...]

HA NOI (VNS) — The Ministry of Transport and central Phu Yen Province's People's Committee opened a new section of National Highway No 1 yesterday.
The province renovated a 66.2km section of the road, starting in September 2013. It was designed with four lanes – two for automobiles at a speed limit of 80km per hour. The other two lanes are earmarked for vehicles without engines like bicycles and cyclos.
The Government funded the VND4.3 trillion (US$191.5 million) project.
The updated section starts in Song Cau Township and ends in Dong Hoa District.
Fourteen reinforced concrete bridges were built on the road. The longest is a 260m flyover crossing Chi Thanh Town.
In the process, 4,622 households in Phu Yen Province were removed and resettled. The project was finished three months ahead of schedule.
A representative from the provincial transport department said the section would help lighten traffic congestion and reduce the number of accidents in the area. — VNS … [Read more...]

HA NOI (VNS) — Joint investors T&T Group and Phu My Infrastructure Construction Ltd Co have filed a proposal with the Ministry of Transport to upgrade National Highway No 37 under a BOT (build-operate-transfer) scheme.
The highway links Ha Noi-Lang Son to the Ha Noi-Thai Nguyen highway.
The 34.3km-long Highway No 37 will pass through the Viet Yen and Hiep Hoa districts in the Bac Giang northern province en route to Thai Nguyen Province's Pho Yen District.
According to the investors, the upgraded two-lane road will have a designated maximum speed of 80km per hour.
The project also includes the building of six bridges across rivers and canals, a flyover and a road.
Some 38.4ha will need to be cleared for the project, including 20.3ha in Bac Giang Province and 18ha in Thai Nguyen Province.
The project, once officially approved, is expected to start work next August and will be put into operation in 2018.
The total investment for the project is expected to reach … [Read more...]

Tuy An district has conducted supporting the construction and enforcing cases arising, affecting the progress of constructing the project of upgrading and expanding the National Highway No.1.
As reported Tuy An district’s Center for Land Development, despite having handed the ground to the construction unit for the above-mentioned project for the 24.55-km route through the district, reaching 100%, about 60 meters of 11 households in the communes of An Dan, An Cu and An Hiep have deliberately obstructed the construction unit. Among these, many households are not eligible for compensation, support or even have received enough compensation, support; however, they refused to hand over the ground, trying to claim additional compensation and support.
Against the backdrop, Tuy An district has requested the authorities, departments and unions to continue coordination to mobilize the households affected by the project to self dismantle their works and houses in order to hand it over … [Read more...]

​Civil Engineering Construction Corporation No.5 (Cienco 5) has started its construction on the project of the national highway improvement and expanding section in the central province of Quang Ngai.
​The section in Quang Ngai province has totally 81 km in length, which is divided into two projects with total capital of 4.8 trillion VND. Of which, 29km in length is BOT project invested at the total capital of 2.1 trillion VND by the co-ordination of Thien Tan Group and Thanh An Company, while the other over 52 km in length is owned by Provincial Department of Transportation with the total fund of 2.7 trillion VND sourced from the National bond. Presented at the ground breaking ceremony on Feb. 8, the Transportation Deputy Minister Mr. Nguyen Van Cong said that the section in Quang Ngai was a part of the national key project of improving and expanding national highway No.1A from the northern province of Thanh Hoa to the southern province of Can Tho. The project aims at improving … [Read more...]

Nhan Dan Online - The Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) will offer VND30 trillion (US$1.44 billion) to fund expansion projects for the National Highway No. 1A connecting Hanoi with the southern Can Tho city.
BIDV and the Ministry of Transport (MoT) signed an agreement yesterday to implement BOT (build-transfer-operators) projects to expand the route from Hanoi to Can Tho, with a focus on projects in the central region from Vinh city in Nghe An province to Ninh Thuan province.
The agreement includes a loan package worth VND20 trillion, VND5 trillion from bond investment, and a reserve package worth VND5 trillion. The maximum loan limit for each project is up to 85% of the total project capital. BIDV will offer specific preferential interest rates when considering in detail each project.
The trans-Vietnam National Highway No. 1A stretches 2,300km from Huu Nghi Quan Border Gate in northern border Lang Son province to Nam Can town in … [Read more...]